It might be a bit of a cliche, but everyone loves a bit of Christmas customisation. The thought of adding little seasonal Easter eggs is like catnip to web developers and at Pixel Pixel we are no different...

SCSS improves on CSS in almost every way, with nesting and powerful directives raising the stakes for front-end dev work. Sadly though, some powerful features of the language are still relatively unknown.

A trusty tool of any Web Developer, browser extensions are now a key component of our workflows, offering extended functionality to the already powerful modern browser dev tools. The ability to test concepts and fiddle with the DOM directly in the browser rather than switching back and forth from an IDE can be a big time-saver, and debugging relevant data about your site performance or third party plugins can offer insights that might otherwise be missed. There are hundreds of useful add-ons targeting inline css, grid layout overlays, cache-clearing, code parsers etc…

We've built multiple WordPress themes for our clients and have taken over many from other people/agencies; some good, some bad. The good ones don't take much to get your head around how they're structured and work, the bad on the other hand can sometimes make you want to go down the pub for a pint and wait for everything to blow over.